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Coconutcake
Coconutcake

Reputation: 196

How to delete everything from string up to the specific character in Python

I wanted to extract only date from following string. Here is variable:

file = '62-201809.csv'

I used rsplit to get rid of file csv extension like this:

splitf = file.rsplit('.', 1)[0]

I got 62-201809 so it's okey but now i need to get rid of everything to '-' and store only 201809 into variable.How to do it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 224

Answers (2)

U13-Forward
U13-Forward

Reputation: 71580

Try using:

>>> file = '62-201809.csv'
>>> file.split('-', 1)[1].split('.')[0]
'201809'
>>>

Or use regex:

>>> import re
>>> file = '62-201809.csv'
>>> re.search('-(\d+)', file).group(1)
'201809'
>>>

Upvotes: 2

Danilo Mercado Oudalova
Danilo Mercado Oudalova

Reputation: 736

If want only use split can do that:

filen = '62-201809.csv'
number = filen.split('.')[0]
number2 = number.split('-')[1]

print(number2)

first get only number, and later the number 201809 only.

Upvotes: 0

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